Yellow Tang - scar?

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I used the word "scar" because I wasn't sure what else to call it. It's the white lines

I'll get a video under white lights tomorrow. I actually tried to do it tonight, but I recently swapped a damaged Hydra Edge light and it was not responding to my command to turn on the white lights. I gotta figure out what that's about.

Here is the article I was referencing, in it, I discuss HLLE and epithelial thinning in Biota tangs:

https://www.coralmagazine.com/2016/03/12/captive-bred-yellow-tangs-showing-hlle/

 

[DmitryB]

I used the word "scar" because I wasn't sure what else to call it. It's the white lines

I'll get a video under white lights tomorrow. I actually tried to do it tonight, but I recently swapped a damaged Hydra Edge light and it was not responding to my command to turn on the white lights. I gotta figure out what that's about.

Here is the article I was referencing, in it, I discuss HLLE and epithelial thinning in Biota tangs:

https://www.coralmagazine.com/2016/03/12/captive-bred-yellow-tangs-showing-hlle/

That is fascinating! So it's something new and not yet fully understood about aquacultured Yellow Tangs.

Those white lines formed within the past 36 or so hours, I think. I did not notice it before that. (Though it's possible it took me another day or something to notice it, but it wouldn't be longer. So the lines formed pretty quickly. (At least by human time. Maybe it's slower on the fish clock.)

 

[mmorrison55]

I have a biota yellow that was raised from silver dollar size and there was a period that the later line was more visible. It’s since changed and is mostly not visible unless I look closely.